Steinway & Sons announces new publishing venture with Amadeus Press

American Music Teacher, June-July, 2004

Steinway & Sons and Amadeus Press recently announced a new venture to create a series of book/CDs, CDs and DVDs celebrating the art of the piano through the artists who perform on them and the music they play.

"Steinway pianos set the standard of excellence in the piano world," said Steinway & Sons Executive Vice President Frank Mazurco. "This collaboration between Steinway and Amadeus sparks a vision that will create fresh and exciting new products for lovers of piano music--classical, jazz, and pop."

Among the products to be released are a history of Steinway Hall as recounted in the anecdotes of Henry Z. Steinway as told to David Dubal, a Steinway artist who is an acclaimed pianist, teacher, writer and radio personality and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School. A separate series of classical, jazz and pop legends of the Steinway piano also will be released.

One of the first CD products will tie into a book being released this fall, Playing the Romantics, by Robert Taub, also a Steinway artist.

The Steinway Master Classes DVD series will feature Dubal and other hosts working with well-known Steinway artists at a variety of locations including Steinway Hall.

Amadeus Press will use a variety of distribution channels to make these new musical products available. The first CDs and DVDs will be released in early fall. The first book/CD, The History of Steinway Hall, is slated for release next spring.

For more information about Steinway & Sons, contact Leo Spellman at (718) 721-2600 or info@steinway.com. For more information about Amadeus Press, contact Linda Heimburg at (973) 835-0675.